About 35 brews, with names such as Oval Beach Blonde and Rambling Amber, are to be brewed in Saugatuck Brewing's 10 31-gallon barrels. The company's brewing capacity is 10 times what it had been.

"We're all over the place," he said of the brewery's beer selection. "Stouts, ambers, pale ales, IPAs (Indian Pale Ales), blonde ales."

This does not count the myriad of concoctions it invites the general public to create with its brew-on-premises offering.

For $250, customers can customize their own beer, using the brewery's ingredients, instruction and bottles, and choosing, for example, a number of preferred hops or level of sweetness.

After two to three weeks, a batch that produces six cases or 60 to 70 22-ounce bottles of beer is ready to be packaged by customers, who can choose to set aside a few pints to drink during the two-hour process.

Serious brewers can return with their empty bottles and do it all over again for $200.

Casual beer enthusiasts can taste-test and then sip a glass in The Lucky Stone, based heavily on the folksy watering holes of Ireland.

Johnson's wife, Kathy, and a team of designers toured the Emerald Isle for inspiration.

There are no televisions in the pub, and smoking is not allowed.

"TVs distract you, and smoking ruins the flavor of the beer," Johnson explained.

SBC's bar manager, Kerry O'Donohue, suggested it might be the only pub in the state to not have a TV.

"Pubs are historically a public meeting place," said O'Donohue, adding conversation should be inspired.

A kitchen is being put in, but will not serve food until the end of summer, Johnson said.

"It'll be pub-type food, not fine dining," Johnson said. "Pub grub."

Meanwhile, about 10,000 square feet of extra space at the new location is to be used for an events hall with seating capacity of 250, Johnson said.

He envisions events such as an Oktoberfest celebration and music acts in the former metal stamping factory, which is connected to the Blue Star Antique Pavilion. Bands will play at The Lucky Stone Pub.

Johnson assigns no figures to a desired return on investment, but added, "We have 40 shareholders who are in for the long term."

He plans later to sell kegs of beer wholesale to restaurants.

Johnson's globe-trotting taste buds inspired him to open Saugatuck Brewing Co. at its original location across the street at 6195 Enterprise Drive in 2005.

There, the demand for beer that a single barrel was producing was too great and space at the 4,000 square-foot site was too small, he said.

Saugatuck Brewing sold 300 barrels of beer in 2006, its peak.

Johnson anticipates doubling that in the next year.

West Michigan's breweries
Breweries in West Michigan include (with addresses, telephone numbers and Web sites):